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Executive and Continuing Professional Education offers innovative courses for leaders in public health, health care, and environmental health and safety. Our courses are designed to provide participants with effective solutions to issues critical to their success and the success of their organization. To learn more about a particular program, click the program title. United States government employees click here

Improve quality, safety, and efficiency through health information technology and gain the leadership skills you need to drive results. You will learn to design an effective health IT strategy and gain the tools to implement this strategy effectively.

Program Audience

Mid- to senior-level health care leaders in clinical or administrative positions who have responsibilities for health information technology. Executives from EHR vendors, health plans, and consulting firms will also benefit.

This course equips you with both the tools and strategies to effectively manage projects in any health care organization. In just a few days, participants will greatly improve their ability to provide focused and strategic leadership to their current and future projects.

Program Audience

Clinical and non-clinical leaders in health care organizations who are tasked with managing projects and project teams.

Our custom-designed programs deliver cutting-edge training for emerging and accomplished leaders and professionals to improve performance in health care delivery and public health. As one of the world's most highly rated schools of public health, we offer expertise in a wide variety of areas.

Program Audience

We can work with you to create training programs adapted to meet your specific goals and objectives, whether your organization is for-profit, non-profit, or in a government sector.

Gain the skills to implement radiation protection programs in biotechnology, university, hospital, medical laboratory, or commercial settings. You will receive the full 40-hour training often required by the United States NRC and Agreement States for licensure.

Program Audience

Aspiring radiation safety officers in government, biotechnology, medical, or academic facilities as well as laboratory staff and scientists using radionuclides in the radiopharmaceutical or health care industries.

This program will offer key lessons and evidence from the Affordable Care Act's arduous implementation, focused on the impact of reform on you and your organization.The nation’s leading health policy experts will explain essential lessons from current reform efforts, anticipate the next round of policy innovations, and offer strategies to thrive in the evolving health care marketplace.

Program Audience

Senior executives from all sectors of the US health care industry will find this program indispensable. Senior executives in health care related roles in non-health sector corporations will also find value. Senior leaders from outside the US with interest or involvement in the US health industry will benefit from attending.

This applied program explores the needs of diverse stakeholders to ensure laboratories are safe, free of hazards, ergonomically sound, and environmentally friendly. Guided laboratory tours of clinical, biosafety, and animal research laboratories ensure you leave the course able to apply what you learned to your organization’s facilities and projects.

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Professionals involved in the design, construction, and renovation of laboratory environments such as laboratory owners, laboratory staff, architects, engineers, and safety professionals.

Effective strategy must be grounded in a deep understanding of our customers. Customer-Driven Strategies for Health Care Professionals will improve your ability to identify, understand, and reach new health care consumers with a focus on making strategic decisions which will position your organization to succeed in the new health care ecosystem.

Become a more effective public health educator. You will explore the roles, responsibilities, and skills of public health case discussion leaders, learn to develop a case-based teaching plan, and hone case-writing and case-based curriculum
development skills.

Program Audience

Leaders in public health and medicine at all levels who are involved in classroom teaching in a global or domestic setting.

This program provides focused training in leadership and management, focused on the clinical and operational challenges senior physicians face as executives. By participating in this program, physicians from around the world will develop skills to be more effective and efficient institutional leaders.

Program Audience

This program is designed for physicians and physician leaders from outside the United States whose responsibilities require them to allocate substantial resources, develop policies, and provide organizational leadership and direction for personnel.

Improve employee health, safety, and security with applied industrial hygiene skills. You will benefit from a comprehensive introduction to industrial hygiene and gain skills to protect employees from workplace environmental hazards.

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Professionals with responsibilities for employee health, safety, and security, from any industry or sector.

Prepare to test and certify systems containing HEPA filtration and gas adsorption systems. Learn to operate testing equipment unique to these activities and gain an understanding of regulations associated with nuclear air- and gas-cleaning activities.

Program Audience

Professionals involved in testing and certifying HEPA filtration systems for nuclear and non-nuclear industries as well as facilities managers, engineers, and safety professionals in hospitals, clean rooms, research, and production facilities.

You will learn to design, implement, and analyze health outcomes studies, use outcomes research data for clinical decision making, health care planning, and technology development, and understand the statistical methods used in this research.

Program Audience

Researchers, clinicians, and administrators who critically review or use outcomes data for clinical decision making and quality improvement. Those conducting, administering, or funding outcomes research will also benefit.

Gain access to an overview on personalized medicine, emerging technologies for the diagnostics lab, the convergence of technologies, and the role of genomics in medical innovation. This program creates a unique forum for physicians, health care executives, government officials and policy makers, and professionals from other fields to focus on the direction and development of the genomic medicine and its impact on the bioeconomy.

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CEOs, CMOs and hospital executives interested in genomics applications; executive managers involved in the design of future medical services; government officials associated with public health innovation; policy makers and regulators interested in genomics and public health; physicians who want an update on genomic innovations in health care.

This program will provide state-of-the-science knowledge on designing effective risk communication messages to improve communication, increase trust in your organization, reduce public anxiety about an issue, and help key stakeholders make better decisions.

Program Audience

Professionals who perform duties in communication, emergency management, or policy making in government, regulated industries, corporations, or academia.

Improve employee health and safety at your organization through ergonomics. You will be able to identify, evaluate, and control risk factors for work-related musculoskeletal disorders and improve your organization’s ergonomics program.

Program Audience

Professionals with responsibilities for employee health and safety from any industry or sector.

Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers brings together physicians in administrative positions in academic health centers, who are not chairs of clinical departments, for intensive and systematic study of the critical leadership and management issues facing academic health centers.

Develop the health care leadership skills you need to achieve individual and organizational objectives. You will gain skills to lead more effectively, including conflict resolution, operational analysis, employee management, and quality management.

Program Audience

Mid- to senior-level health care leaders or leaders in preparation for assuming more senior positions.

The Program for Chiefs of Clinical Services brings together chiefs of major clinical departments in teaching hospitals for intensive and systematic study of the critical leadership and management issues facing chiefs, their departments, and teaching hospitals.

Program Audience

The Program is for heads of departments of medicine, surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, pediatrics, family medicine, psychiatry, neurology, anesthesiology, pathology, and radiology.

Improve quality, safety, and efficiency through health information technology and gain the leadership skills you need to drive results. You will learn to design an effective health IT strategy and gain the tools to implement this strategy effectively.

Program Audience

Mid- to senior-level health care leaders in clinical or administrative positions who have responsibilities for health information technology. Executives from EHR vendors, health plans, and consulting firms will also benefit.

Work, Health, and Well-being is ideal for professionals with direct responsibility for the health, safety, and wellness of employees as well as those who are designing or directing health protection and health promotion programs. Participants will represent diverse sectors, industries, and job functions and will come from around the world.

Initiate and implement change in health care by leveraging meta-leadership. You will explore both meta-leadership concepts and the 'Walk in the Woods' methodology, a proven method for interest-based negotiation.

Program Audience

Senior health care leaders or leaders in preparation for assuming more senior positions.

Develop the health care leadership skills you need to achieve individual and organizational objectives. You will gain skills to lead more effectively, including conflict resolution, operational analysis, employee management, and quality management.

Program Audience

Mid- to senior-level health care leaders or leaders in preparation for assuming more senior positions.